Say thou: "Await ye!- I too will wait along with you!"

Is it that their faculties of understanding urge them to this, or are they but a people transgressing beyond bounds?

Or do they say, "He fabricated the (Message)"? Nay, they have no faith!

Let them then produce a recital like unto it,- If (it be) they speak the truth!

Were they created of nothing, or were they themselves the creators?

Or did they create the heavens and the earth? Nay, they have no firm belief.

Or are the Treasures of thy Lord with them, or are they the managers (of affairs)?

Or have they a ladder, by which they can (climb up to heaven and) listen (to its secrets)? Then let (such a) listener of theirs produce a manifest proof.

Or has He only daughters and ye have sons?

Or is it that thou dost ask for a reward, so that they are burdened with a load of debt?-

Or that the Unseen in it their hands, and they write it down?

Or do they intend a plot (against thee)? But those who defy Allah are themselves involved in a Plot!

Or have they a god other than Allah? Exalted is Allah far above the things they associate with Him!

Were they to see a piece of the sky falling (on them), they would (only) say: "Clouds gathered in heaps!"

So leave them alone until they encounter that Day of theirs, wherein they shall (perforce) swoon (with terror),-

The Day when their plotting will avail them nothing and no help shall be given them.

And verily, for those who do wrong, there is another punishment besides this: But most of them understand not.

Now await in patience the command of thy Lord: for verily thou art in Our eyes: and celebrate the praises of thy Lord the while thou standest forth,

And for part of the night also praise thou Him,- and at the retreat of the stars!